April 8th is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel and is the penultimate song on their debut album On Avery Island. Though Three Peaches, another song on this album, had a pretty dark and sad sound to it, I must say that April 8th is easily the darkest track …

If you are a fan of trip-hop music, then you probably are a fan of Tricky, the U.K.’s resident trip-hop king. Pock-faced, and “gravel-y” voiced, this singer/producer has placed a collection of his most popular songs/ videos on DVD. The DVD has three sections, each with …

This is the band’s Fifth album and first for Roadrunner Records, released in 2004. This is a great album by the band, it’s smoother than anything the band has released before it, it is really heavy, and at times has a lot of melody, and could be classified as …

This guitar is the second guitar that I purchased. The first guitar that I bought was a Mexican Stratocaster. This Ibanez brand guitar has some cool features, but it just wasn’t for me. I really prefer my Strat over the Ibanez. I honestly don’t really know why I bought …

Marooned is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their album The Division Bell. The first thing I should mention about this song is that it is an instrumental where David Gilmour pretty much leads the tracks, so if you’re not one for guitar solos then this probably …

Sick And Tired/Sick And Tired is a song by Sledding With Tigers and the sixth track on their second album, The Hill Sheep. Returning instruments to the mix, I can thankfully say that Sick And Tired/Sick And Tired is not only an immense step up from the preceding track, …

Fight Test is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their record Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. The song opens up with an echo-like effect and also sets up an atmosphere as if you’re in a huge arena of people watching a “fight test”, as the name …

If I could change something from As I Am by Alicia Keys, it would be the image of her CD album. It is quite oldish looking, but I suppose she wants it that way. Not that bad anyway, but I would prefer the glam Alicia Keys on the …

Jesus Is King is Kanye West’s most arthouse album.
I’m surprised that “Jesus Is King” was Kanye’s lowest-rated album, especially considering that it sounds fresher than anything that came out in 2019 overall. Don’t think fresher = better, because this album is far from ideal. And there is a feeling …

Overview —“ Welcome Home (Sanitarium), the second of what I would consider to be considered Metallica’s —˜ballads’ is the fourth track on Master Of Puppets. I know that Metallica was criticized for putting Fade To Black, their first ballad, on Ride The Lightning and this song is pretty much …

A coworker of mine hipped me to this guy. I had never heard of him. But as soon as I took a listen to his lead single “Day n Nite” I was immediately hooked. This rapper is from Cleveland; and I have the feeling that …

This female-fronted rock band has been around on the indie circuit for almost 10 years. The singer Chibi really reminds me of Fairuza Balk (the actress) in looks and expressions, and she has a great little-girl voice that can also get dark and growly. The band sort of travels …

We rode in trucks by Luke Bryant is a song that makes me think of the small town I live in cause I know what it is like to grow up like he is talking about. Trucks are a common thing among these parts. This song shows how it …

Stone Free is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience with appears on the album Are You Experienced? Stone Free starts out with a short guitar part before leading into a pretty interesting rhythm, certainly a moving one at that. Hendrix soon comes in with his voice to sing …

Nine Heavens, the second album by Niyaz, a group comprised of former Vas vocal Azam Ali, instrumentalist Loga Ramin Torkian, and DJ Carmen Rizzo, is an ecstatic 2-CD compilation. The first of these contains 9 electronically mixed songs, and the second repeats the same songs except one in an …

Be Quick Or Be Dead is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Fear Of The Dark. Be Quick Or Be Dead starts off with a brief drum section before the guitars and bass come in with a pretty quick and aggressive riff to start the …

This Road To The Riches by Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo costs about $69.00, and it consists of songs that have an old school feel to it and also upbeat drums.
When first listening to it, I thought that this is pretty legendary, and what with the old school …

I like all the songs from Fergie, its so good to listen and sing, and the most its really represent all my feeling. Like in this song, ‘All That I Got’, everytime I listen to this song, my heart feels so undescrible, happy, full of love, have spirit, fragile, …

Plastic Jesus is a song by The Flaming Lips and the ninth song to appear on their release Transmissions From The Satellite Heart. Just as a note from the beginning, this song is a cover rather than an original. Featuring one of the most simplistic sounds throughout the entire …

Van Halen burst on the scene with their debut album and changed the way guitar players played their instruments.Eddie Van Halen was so influential and practically everyone copied his playing style throughout the next decade.The front man David Lee Roth sparked a vital new energy that got crowds to …

Fryin’ Up is a song by The Flaming Lips and appears as the seventh track on their album Telepathic Surgery. Opening up with a very catchy distorted guitar riff, right from the start of this song the band do an excellent job of having a very catchy rhythm and …

The all male musical group Boys II Men was an African AMerican soul music group who was for the most part poular from the early to late Nineteen Nineties. Thus I would hear their songs throughout my childhood being played on the radio, and I would even see their …

Drug Machine In Heaven is a song by the Flaming Lips and the opening track on their third release, Telepathic Surgery. Opening with a distorted guitar riff, the drums and bass enter the song to give the overall tone a sound which is similar to several songs the band …

KRS ONE is a great rapper who really taught young people what hip hop is all about. He taught us that it’s not all about money or how hardcore you are. It’s about expressing yourself and helping make the world a better place through music. I think that he had …

Black Label Society released their studio album,”Mafia,” in 2005.The album propelled the band to superstar status.Zakk Wylde had already received stardom while performing with legendary singer Ozzy Osbourne.However, Black label Society was Zakk’s own music, and songwriting.When Mafia was released it solidified the guitarist/singers own artistic endeavors.Black Label Society …

Rolling Papers is Wiz Khalifa’s big debut album. He released a few of the songs as singles before the release of the CD. That made it feel like I had already heard about half of the songs before he released it. The problem with that was that he had …

Shoot Me Again is a song by Metallica which appears on their album St. Anger. Before I begin, the typical problems that plague all of St. Anger exist on this song: terrible drum sound, vocals sound extremely out of tune, songs far too long, etc. Like most of St. …

Surfing on the web I found this blog that has the recording of the first date of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds North American tour of their latest recording ‘Dig!!!, Lazarus, Digg!!!’ The night was September 16, 2008, the venue was the 4th & B, at San Diego, …

From the opening strum of the song, you will eventually come to a conclusion that it will be great. Every time I hear the opening melody I always have the feeling that the song will be great throughout, and that instinct is always right, the song is pure EDM …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Listen” (Version 2)
Album: B-Day
Label: Columbia
Director: Matthew Rolston
This second version of the music video for the song “Listen”, from the “Dreamgirls” soundtrack as well as Beyonce’s second album titled “B-Day”, doesn’t improve upon on the original version in anyway whatsoever. I don’t quite know what the reason is …

This is the 21st Century is a song by the progressive rock group Marillion, which was first released in the 1990s but which has had several further releases since that time, some of them in a (to my way of thinking) considerably inferior acoustic version that was cut to …

‘Me and Little Andy’ is such a sad song about a little girl with her puppy knocking on a door in the cold and rain wearing nothing but rags. She tells how her parents have left her alone at the age of six or seven with her puppy. …

In my opinion, Sebastian Bach is one of the best singers on the planet. His days with Skid Row birthed some of the most memorable vocal performances in modern rock. It’s no secret that he was booted from the Row, and it’s no secret that a reunion …

Metallica Finally a wise decision to release the album, which may be therapeutic disappointment after the album St. Anger in 2003. Albums that can be included in the category of very bad and makes fans ask about what happened with that metal music icon. Although this album can not …

I watched Don’t Cha by The Pussycat Dolls on Ellen Show before and I must say that I was totally bemused and impressed. I think the lead singer, Nicole sang like a karaoke version of something. She can really stretch her vocal chords and it was so fun …

My Favorite Colors is a song by Animal Collective and is the third track to appear on their 2006 EP entitled People. While not exactly an instrumental, the vocal performance to appear on My Favorite Colors is basically just a lot of vocal humming over the top of some …

I Remember Learning How To Dive is a song by Animal Collective and is the final track to appear on their 2005 EP, Prospect Hummer. Opening up with an incredibly simple percussive pattern, Bunyan rejoins the recording and contributes the vocals to the track with a multi-layered vocal delivery. …

One of the most successful rock band Creed, has released a new live concert dvd in support of the Album Full Circle. It features the whole concert in Chicago and it was one of the concert DVD’s that I thought was really tampered with. I Think since Scott Stapps …

Sam Ash Music Store
Raleigh, NC 27604
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If you like to play guitars, then chances are you are going to love Sam Ashe. The store is filled to the brim with musical instruments, mostly guitars. For me, the best part abotu sam Ashe is that all of the guitars are …

Even though I am a fan of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and listened to some of their albums as soon as they were released, which was certainly the case with their 2003 album Take Them On, On Your Own, and their 2005 album Howl, I actually missed the release …

Underdog is arguably one of the greatest hardcore punk bands to ever surface. Unfortunately, until recently most of their recorded material has been obscure and hard to find anywhere. But Bridge 9 Records released “Matchless”- a compilation that puts together combines their “The Vanishing Point” and “Demos” albums together …

I have always been upset that I missed Woodstock and missed most of the 60’s. I have been jealous of those people who lived through that decade of peace, love and rock and roll. My music tastes, and sometimes even my taste in fashion and lifestyle have trended toward …

Irchirin no hana is a Japanese song with a dark heavy metal beat to it. I, as a American, find this song fascinating. Never before have I heard such a dark melody of love played out in this strange fashion. Written by High and MIGHTY COLORS, This strange …

The first time I heard this song was at an open air food court while having supper with a friend. I liked it a lot, and after that I went straight to get an MP3 copy of it from the Internet, burnt it into a CD and have been …

I don’t know about other people. And I don’t know whether they see the same things as I do. But have you seen other musical talented people in the musical world, that have grown so much in performace, in atttitude, in passion as Beyonce? I mean surely there is …

Uno is a song by Muse which appears on their debut record, Showbiz. The song opens up with some guitar feedback which gradually fades into the track before starting the opening riff of the track which has quite an aggressive and heavy sound to it. A lead guitar along …

People II 2: Still Peoplin’ is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their 2011 release, Knife Man. Opening up with a light vocal section, an acoustic guitar rhythm can be heard strumming along before the first verse comes in which features a vocal delivery where the …

Overview —“ No Leaf Clover, one of the two new Metallica songs written for the project in collaboration with The San Francisco Symphony, S&M, is sort of a clever play on words with a four leaf clover. Whereas a four leaf clover is generally associated with good luck, Hetfield …

There is barely anything I can say about this album that hasn’t been said by critics over the past 10 years or so. Released in September 2004, The beautiful thing about this album is that this was something I didn’t necessarily enjoy on first listen but for me I …